Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three Buenos Aires political detention centers last week, imprisoned without charge or hearing for eight months or more. From such Argentines, suspected of having important conspiratorial knowledge, Political Order extracts information with the aid of a simple device called la picana, a hot electric wire applied to the blindfolded victim...
...wife and three children piled into it for the drive up the Hudson River valley to Troy, where they were going to spend a week with his parents. On the way, they stopped at Hyde Park and saw the grave of the nation's most famed polio victim. It was the polio season, but the Kidders felt only the vague concern that all parents have for their youngsters...
...Mexico was as hard hit as anywhere. In Espanola, the schools were closed because 472 pupils were absent and 325 more had to be sent home because they started running fevers. Many another town closed its schools. In Santa Fe, nearly every family had at least one victim of the fever. But doctors (many of them ill too) agreed that everybody was getting better fast...
...Victim. In Mineola, L.I., Dennis Mc-Knight, arrested for drunk driving, was held in $500 bail after he told the judge that two men had held him up, taken his wallet, forcibly plied him with so much whisky that he couldn't remember what they looked like or where it all happened...
...Williamsport. It agreed to pay Williamsport stockholders an extra $6,000,000 for a clear title to the company (it had originally paid $3,300,000 for the business while it was in receivership). In approving the terms of the settlement, Judge Albert L. Watson called Bethlehem "an innocent victim of circumstances over which it had no control...